Newtown Action Alliance Calls on Paul Ryan to Vote on 56 House Gun Bills in the Wake of Parkland School Shooting

For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 26, 2018

Press Contact:John Kelley917-679-6475jkelley@newtownaction.org

Newtown Action Alliance Calls on Paul Ryan to Vote on 56 House Gun Bills in the Wake of Parkland School Shooting

Newtown,CT- Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance, issued the following statement demanding a vote on 56 gun control bills introduced in the House of Representatives:

“On Valentine’s Day, 17 students and educators were brutally murdered by a 19-year-old gunman who was legally able to purchase a Smith & Wesson M&P15 assault rifle. Once again, House Speaker Paul Ryan has offered up his thoughts and prayers and has refused to allow a vote on any and all gun control legislative proposals that would prevent these mass shooting tragedies, gun suicides and everyday gun violence in America.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan think tank that tracks money in politics, found that 232 of the 435 members of the House of Representatives received money from the gun lobby in 2016.

It’s clear why Speaker Ryan refuses to allow a vote on the following gun control measures. He was the recipient of the highest contributions from the gun lobby groups in 2016.

The gun lobby’s influence on Congress is killing our children in their schools, on their streets and everywhere in America. We demand that Speaker Ryan reject all money from the gun lobby and immediately allow a vote on the 56 gun control measures outlined below.”

Gun Violence Prevention Task Force

Member Bills and Resolutions in the 115th Congress(February 2018)Rep. David Cicilline (RI-1)

Cosponsors: 9Summary: To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.

Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10)H.R.3361Title: SECURE Firearm Storage Act

Cosponsors: 24Summary: To amend title 18, United States Code, to require federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers to meet certain requirements with respect to securing their firearms inventory, business records, and business premises.

Cosponsors: 163Summary: Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on: the causes of mass shootings, methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system, connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals, strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms, closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms, linkages between firearms and suicide, gun violence’s effect on public health, the correlation between state gun violence prevention laws and the incidence of gun violence, the importance of having reliable and accurate information on gun violence and its toll on our nation, the implementation of effective gun violence prevention laws in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and rates of gun violence in large metropolitan areas.

H.R. 4142Title: Safer Communities Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 2Summary: To protect individuals by strengthening the Nation’s mental health infrastructure, improving the understanding of violence, strengthening firearm prohibitions and protections for at-risk individuals, and improving and expanding the reporting of mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

H.R. 4240Title: Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 161Summary: To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.

Rep. David Cicilline (RI-1)H.R. 2841Title: Disarm Hate Act

Cosponsors: 37Summary: To prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.

H.Con.Res.66Title: Expressing support for the designation of June 21 as National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day to promote children’s health and gun safety.

Cosponsors: 13Summary: Expresses support for the designation of National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day to encourage parents to begin asking the question, “Is there an unlocked gun in your house?” before their child visits other homes.

H.R.4344Title: End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 3Summary: To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes.

H.R.4343Title: Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act

Cosponsors: 5Summary: To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes.

H.R.4342Title: Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act

Cosponsors: 8Summary: To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to restrict the ability of a person whose Federal license to import, manufacture, or deal in firearms has been revoked, whose application to renew such a license has been denied, or who has received a license revocation or renewal denial notice, to transfer business inventory firearms, and for other purposes.

Rep. Val Demings (FL-10)H.Res.380Title: Commemorating one year since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016.

Cosponsors: 30Summary: Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Calls on the people of the United States to: promote greater awareness of gun violence and gun safety; wear orange on National Gun Violence Awareness Day; concentrate heightened attention on gun violence during the summer months, when gun violence typically increases; and bring citizens and community leaders together to discuss ways to make the communities safer.

H.R.4573Title: Gun Violence Research Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 27Bipartisan: NoSummary: To clarify that the Dickey Amendment does not prevent the use of funds for research on mental health, gun violence, and how they intersect, and to provide for reporting on the effects of gun violence.

Cosponsors: 1Summary: To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to receive a firearm.

H.R.62Title: Gun Violence Reduction Resources Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 1Summary: This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to hire 200 additional agents and investigators for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Cosponsors: 1Summary: This bill authorizes FY2018 appropriations for the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Social Security Administration to: (1) increase access to mental health care treatment and services, and (2) promote reporting of mental health information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

H.R.1983Title: David’s Law

Cosponsors: 0Summary: To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.The bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury and DOJ, for FY2017-FY2019, to increase the number of personnel to protect against criminal interference with federally-protected activities.

H.R. 4268Title: Gun Safety: Not Sorry Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 21Summary: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for a 7-day waiting period before a semiautomatic firearm, a silencer, armor piercing ammunition, or a large capacity ammunition magazine may be transferred.

Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA-31)H.R.4650Title: PROTECT Act

Cosponsors: 3Summary: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to develop and make available guidance relating to domestic preparedness for and collective response to terrorism regarding active shooter and mass casualty incident response assistance, and for other purposes.

Rep. Tony Cardenas (CA-29)H.Res. 370Title: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun violence

Cosponsors: 4Summary: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to disclose their concealed carry or open carry policies with respect to firearms, and for other purposes.

Cosponsors: 6Summary: To enact into law a framework for deciding whether certain projectiles are `primarily intended for sporting purposes’ for purposes of determining whether the projectiles are armor piercing ammunition.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-7)H.R.2784Title: Good Neighbor Gun Dealer Act

Cosponsors: 3Summary: To require the Attorney General to establish a `Good Neighbor’ code of conduct for federally licensed firearms dealers, and for other purposes.

Cosponsors: 1Summary: This bill amends the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to repeal provisions that prohibit state or federal civil actions or administrative proceedings from being brought against firearm or ammunition manufacturers, sellers, importers, dealers, or trade associations for criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm by the person bringing the action or a third party.

Cosponsors: 0Summary: This bill authorizes appropriations to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for Violent Crime Reduction Partnerships in the most violent U.S. cities. It permits the ATF to transfer appropriated funds to another agency or instrumentality of the U.S. government for the purpose of conducting activities under such a partnership.

Cosponsors: 37Summary: To establish a Department of Peacebuilding, and for other purposes.

Rep. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47)H.Res.90Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that gun violence is a public health issue and Congress should enact by the end of the 115th Congress comprehensive Federal legislation that protects the Second Amendment and keeps communities safe and healthy, including expanding enforceable background checks for all commercial gun sales, improving the mental health system in the United States, and making gun trafficking and straw purchasing a Federal crime.

Cosponsors: 41

H.R. 1708Title: Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 6Summary: To prohibit the sale of a firearm to, and the purchase of a firearm by, a person who is not covered by appropriate liability insurance coverage.

H.R.2380Title: Handgun Trigger Safety Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 7Summary: To provide for the development and use of technology for personalized handguns, to require that all handguns manufactured or sold in, or imported into, the United States incorporate such technology, and for other purposes.

Cosponsors: 3Summary: To establish a grant program to encourage States to adopt certain policies and procedures relating to the transfer and possession of firearms.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL-7)H.R.1478Title: Gun Violence Research Act

Cosponsors: 132Summary: To repeal the provision that in practice prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from sponsoring research on gun violence in fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)H.R.373Title: Expressing support for the designation of June 2017 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month” and calling on Congress to address gun violence

Summary: To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Center for Violence Prevention, and for other purposes.

H.R. 4290Title: To require the Attorney General to study whether an individual’s history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting.

Cosponsors: 20

H.R. 4471Title: NICS Denial Notification Act of 2017

Cosponsors: 12

Summary: To provide for the reporting to State and local law enforcement authorities of cases in which the national instant criminal background check system indicates that a firearm has been sought to be acquired by a prohibited person, so that authorities may pursue criminal charges under State law, and to ensure that the Department of Justice reports to Congress on prosecutions secured against prohibited persons who attempt to acquire a firearm.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)H.Res. 666Title: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to observe a 60-second moment of silence in the House for those killed by gun violence in the United States on the next legislative day after any such individual dies.

Cosponsors: 0

Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10)H.R.3361Title: SECURE Firearm Storage Act

Cosponsors: 24Summary: To amend title 18, United States Code, to require federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers to meet certain requirements with respect to securing their firearms inventory, business records, and business premises.

Cosponsors: 7Summary: To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand to all firearms the requirement that Federal firearms licensees report sales of 2 or more handguns to the same unlicensed person within 5 consecutive business days.

H.R.1692Title: Countering Illegal Firearms Trafficking to Mexico Act

Cosponsors: 4Summary: To address the problem of illegal firearm trafficking to Mexico.

Cosponsors: 9Summary: To reduce gun violence, fund gun violence research and victim assistance, and enhance the tracking of lost and stolen firearms, and for other purposes.”

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Newtown Action Alliance (http://alliance.newtownaction.org/) is a Newtown-based, national grassroots organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Our mission is to achieve the steady and continuous reduction of gun violence through legislative and cultural changes.

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